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Hebrew verb · H7570

רָתַח

rathachraw-thakh'

to boil

3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: râthach

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7570is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 3
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7570

to boil

The King James renders it: boil.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

rathach is rendered "to boil". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 30:27I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
  • The Greek text spells it three different ways.

The first use

I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

Job 30:27רֻתְּח֥וּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Two of the word's three uses are in Job.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • it makes boil1
  • make boil1
  • they have been made to boil1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

רָתַקrathaqto bindUses2
רָתַםrathamto bindUses1

All 3, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

3 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • יַרְתִּ֣יחַ1
  • רַתַּ֣ח1
  • רֻתְּח֥וּ1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhi3ms
  • verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVPp3cp
  • verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVpv2ms

Job

two uses
  • I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

    Job 30:27

    • רֻתְּח֥וּrutechuverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been made to boil
  • He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like a jar of ointment.

    Job 41:31

    • יַרְתִּ֣יחַyartiachverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it makes boil

Ezekiel

one use
  • Take the choicest of the flock and pile the fuel beneath it. Bring it to a boil and cook the bones in it.’

    Ezekiel 24:5

    • רַתַּ֣חratachverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: make boil

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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